Jens Martin Skibsted

Jens Martin Skibsted is the Global Partner, VP Mobility & Foresight at Manyone. He is a Danish designer, entrepreneur, and author. He is the co-author of Expand: Stretching the Future by Design.

He is currently a partner at Manyone, and has founded or co-founded companies such as Biomega, Skibsted Ideation, Actics, KiBiSi and Ogojiii (Ogo-gee).

Jens Martin Skibsted is an award-winning entrepreneur, designer and design philosopher; best known for Biomega’s urban mobility designs. He helped found design consultancies incl. Skibsted Ideation, KiBiSi and Manyone. His designs live in the collections at the MoMA, Le Cnap, Designmuseum Danmark, SFMoMA etc. He is also the founder of Ogojiii – the African design and global affairs magazine.
He is the former Vice-Chair of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design & innovation and currently the Co-Chair of W.E.F.’s Global Future Council on Entrepreneurship. He is in the board of the Danfoss Foundation, Biomega, and Manyone; Formerly the Chairman of the Danish Design Council, Vice-Chair of the Danish design cluster, Design2Innovate, Co-chair of World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Entrepreneurship, and advisor to the INDEX prize and Mindlab.
A Young Global Leader alumnus who spoke at W.E.F., Davos, DLD, TED and more. He is a published author, and ad hoc expert blogger for The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, Børsen and Fast Company.

Specialties: Combining creative direction, design, ideation and strategic positioning. Special interests within design philosohy, urban mobility and green transportation.